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It's kinda weird that PPC Macs can run 22 year-old apps while the Intel Macs are limited to 5 years, but that's progress I guess.
For whatever reason, Apple decided to kill the Classic mode on Intel-based Macs.
#Mac os 9 sheepshaver mac#
Only problem is a PPC-based Mac is a requirement. However, I would strongly recommend you stick with Apple's Classic mode, as it has much better compatibility, and integrates (almost) seamlessly with OS X. If the System and Applications folders of a non-bootable version of Classic were placed in a disc image and used in a PowerMac emulator, would the image be able to successfully boot OS 9 on the emulator?
#Mac os 9 sheepshaver mac os#
However, I recall that Mac OS Classic supposedly can be copied entirely to another hard drive by copying the System and Applications folders. When I took a peek at Apple System Profiler, the hardware it reported itself running on was a Power Mac 9500 series, with a G4 processor, running at 100MHz.Ever since 2003, Apple changed the firmware on their PowerPC machines so that they would no longer be able to boot the included Mac OS 9.2.2 naively. Looks pretty stable, though as noted before, it’s not the swiftest. This puzzled me for a bit, before I remembered that on Mac OS, every mounted drive had its own Desktop Folder and everything in those folders from all mounted drives showed up on the desktop.ĥ. If you have an OS 9 Desktop Folder on your Intel Mac’s drive, SheepShaver will pick up on it while mounting the Unix drive and show whatever is in there on your Mac OS 9 desktop as generic icons. Nothing I’ve done up to this point makes either folder (even renamed!) visible on the Unix drive.Ĥ. Specifically, it doesn’t show the Mac OS 9 “Applications (Mac OS 9)” or the “System Folder” folders, which is quite bizarre. There’s some weirdness with the Unix drive, where it won’t show some folders. You can copy things from the Unix drive into the Mac OS 9 environment and vice-versa.ģ. The OS X hard drive shows up on the Mac OS 9 desktop as a drive called “Unix”. This isn’t like Classic, where OS 9 and OS X applications co-existed on the screen. Here’s the settings I’m using with SheepShaver:įor Ethernet, using slirp will let you share OS X’s network connection.ġ. That’s as far as SheepShaver supported, so I shutdown OS 9 and started customizing the settings.
#Mac os 9 sheepshaver update#
After that, I applied the Mac OS 9.0.4 update normally. I selected that and installed OS 9 onto it. Within SheepShaver’s window, the disk image showed up mounted like a normal hard drive. I built a one gig-sized disk image, set that as my boot volume, set my ROM’s location, then had SheepShaver boot off of my OS 9 CD by selecting “Boot From CD-ROM” on the Volumes tab in SheepShaverGUI and hitting the Start button.įrom that point, it was like a normal installation of Mac OS 9. I started off by launching the SheepShaverGUI program, which is a graphical program used to configure SheepShaver’s settings as well as make the disk images that SheepShaver uses to boot off of. I needed a Mac OS 9 CD (9.0, not 9.1 or 9.2.x.), a copy of a compatible Mac OS ROM (I used MacOS ROM 1.6 from MacOS ROM Update 1.0 use TomeViewer on a PPC Mac to extract the ROM from the installer,) sufficient space on my hard drive and a copy of SheepShaver (available from. In terms of speed and screen redraw, it’s not that swift but it should be fine for a person who just needs to run one or two Mac OS applications. I can’t see the AppleTalk zones of my workplace though, though, so all printing looks like it’ll need to be set up via LPR. Select Mac OS 9, or whatever you named your disk as your destination.
#Mac os 9 sheepshaver install#
A setup folder will pop up, select Mac OS 9 Install 3.
You will get a screen saying that the disk is unreadable, name it to whatever and make sure it's selected as. I can get out to the internet via ethernet or my workplace’s wireless network, so it looks like TCP is working fine. Mac OS 9.0.4 in Sheepshaver On Windows 1. I’ve gotten Mac OS 9.0.4 up and working on an Intel Mac, running off of SheepShaver.
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